UFT Tutorial 1: Introduction to UFT/QTP

Overview on UFT) Unified Functional Testing = QTP + Service Tools I) Version History a) Astra QuickTest (1.0 to 5.0) b) QTP 5.6 -2002 6.5 -2003 8.0 - 2004 8.2-2005 9.0-2006 9.2 - 2007 --------Mercury Interactive) 9.5 -2008 ---------HP--------- 10.0-2009 11.0-2010 UFT 11.5 -2012 . . UFT 12.02 -2014 ----------------------------------- II) UFT Product Information UFT is a Functional and Regression Test Tool, supports Desktop and Web Applications UFT developed in .NET technology UFT is an object based Test tool Software objects in Desktop / Windows based applications Window, Dialog box, Edit box, Button, Radio button, Check box, Drop down box, List box, Combo box etc... Software objects in Web based applications Button, Radio Button, Edit box, List box etc... Browser, Page, Link, Image etc..... UFT has an integrated MS Access Database engine to support Database operations UFT has vbscript engine to applay progrmming logic to Tests Work with flat files Work with Excel files Work with Database files UFT is I-tier Application -------------------------------------------------------- III) UFT Supporting Environments a) OS Environment MS Windows UNIX Client side Windows: 85% UNIX: 10% server side: Windows: 45% UNIX: 45% Selenium Windows, UNIX, Mac etc... -------------------------------- b) Application Environment CUI based Windows / Desktop Web based Selenium -Web applications only ------------------------------- c) Scripting / Programming UFT VBScript Selenium - Java/C#/Perl/Python/Ruby/PHP ------------------------------------- IV) UFT Add in a) Internal add ins 1) Standard Windows (Built Add in) 2) Activex 3) Visual Basic 4) Web b) External Add ins 5) Java 6) .NET for windows forms 7) .NET for web forms 8) WPF 9) SAP for GUI 10) SAP for web 11) Peoplesoft 12) Siebel 13) Power Builder 14) Delphi 15) Web services 16) TE 17) Oracle 18) Smalltalk 19) Stingray 20) Silver Light ----------------------------- How to select appropriate Add ins for AUT: ------------ 3 web applications, developed using Java technology 1st App 2nd App 3rd App ------------------------------------------- Web Activex Activex Web Web Java --------------------------------------------- Based on UI design. V) UFT License: a) Seat / Node Locked b) Concurrent / Float ---------------------- VI) UFT IDE 3 types of features support i) Direct features Ex: Recording, Checkpoints, Output values, Data Table, Object Spy, Step Generator, Object Repository etc... ii) Integrated tools from HP Ex: Password encoder, Test Batch Runner, Test Result deletion tool etc... iii) Integrated tools from others Ex: MS Access Database for Database operations VBScript engine for applying programming logic MS Script Debugger for Debugging Tests --------------------------------- VII) Limitations of UFT: a) It doesn't support UNIX/Linux/Solaris operating environments b) It supports IE only for creating test tests c) Supports VBScript only for enhancing tests d) Challenges in Object Identification ---------------------------